Tuna, 62, was riding a motorcycle when he was detained.
The security forces of Guatemala they captured this Thursday in the south of the country an alleged drug trafficker requested by the United States for his extradition to the North American nation.
The National Civil Police reported that agents of the General Subdirectorate for Anti-narcotics Analysis and Information (Sgaia) specified the arrest of Genry Ruperto Tuna Ojeda, required by the American justice.
The arrest took place in the Morenas village of the port of Iztapa, in the department of Escuintla, located about 100 kilometers south of Guatemala City.
Tuna, 62 years old, I was riding a motorcycle when He was arrested for having an arrest warrant for the purpose of extradition for drug trafficking to the United States.
According to the authorities, the Guatemalan is Accused of the crimes of conspiracy, illicit association and distribution of 5 kilos or more of a mixture of cocaine with the intention of taking it to the United States.
During 2021, according to the Ministry of the Interior (Interior), the security forces have arrested in the Central American country 68 people requested in extradition by the US justice, 56 of them for drug trafficking, including Tuna.
Guatemala is used due to its geographical position as a bridge for the transfer of narcotics from South America to the United States, according to the experts’ view, since around 90% of the drugs that reach the United States pass through the Central American nation.
Last year, according to the official records of the Interior Ministry, the Guatemalan security forces seized more than 13,628 kilograms of cocaine, which meant a reduction of 28.28% in relation to what was seized in 2019.
While this year more than eleven tons of cocaine have been seized, the last of them on December 16 in a community in the northern department of Petén, bordering Mexico and Belize, found in an abandoned private jet. (I)
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